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convalescence

/kon-vuh-les-uhns/US // ˌkɒn vəˈlɛs əns //UK // (ˌkɒnvəˈlɛsəns) //

疗养,疗养院,疗养期,康复

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the gradual recovery of health and strength after illness.
    • : the period during which one is convalescing.

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Examples

  • Baha Mar’s Travel with Confidence initiative includes a $150 daily food and beverage credit with its courtesy convalescence suite.

  • While there, she accidentally contracted conjunctivitis from an infant with gonorrhea ophthalmia and subsequently lost an eye after a long and painful convalescence.

  • If Captain America can come back from the dead, then his current convalescence is only a temporary derailment.

  • Hospitalized, seriously injured, he would return after a six-week convalescence.

  • After a long period of convalescence following her breakdown, she breathes a sigh of relief when she is able to write.

  • During my convalescence I had bought and read for the first time, The King in Yellow.

  • Moreover, his convalescence involved a continuing “liberal education.”

  • It appears early in the catarrhal stage, and persists until after convalescence.

  • I was blinded by passion; but that my emotional depths were not even stirred was manifested by the rapidity of my convalescence.

  • She charged him with having been a remarkable case, and he piled up illustrations of what he felt able to do in his convalescence.

  • The nurse smiled, and left him to his thoughts, which now came freely enough—too freely to help him to convalescence.

  • A great weakness seemed to overcome him, for an unusual gentleness came into his voice, the quiet tone of weak convalescence.